Miyabi Oba is definitely a contender as well. She placed 8th at Jr. Worlds (Zijun 9th) and has a pretty reliable 3s/3t. Agafonova could also contend if she improved consistency and skating skills since last season. This is a tough enough ladies field I'd say.

I'm also excited to see how Nam Nguyen of Canada and He Zhang of China will fare here!

I'm surprised to see Sui/Han in the JGP again this season. I thought that since they already medalled in last years senior's gpf, wouldn't they just want to stay in seniors right now? But I guess it'll be the same as last year. They will try to qualify for both the senior and junior finals. And if they don't get into the senior one, they'll just be in jgpf this year.

I looked at the senior gp entries and only saw Sui/Han in Skate Canada. Is that all they're doing?

For gold, I think it will come down to just three girls
Polina Shelepen, Samantha Cesario, and Vanessa Lam

Maybe one of these three will bomb and the other one will get a silver.

The rest of them can only hope for a bronze at this point. Anyone of them can be out of the top 10 easily.

Wait, those with the letter S next to them are the substitutes, aren't they? This includes Samantha Cesario and Vanessa Lam. Of the rest there seems to be 5 contenders for the podium: Shelepen, Siraj, Agafonova, Li, and Oba.

Wait, those with the letter S next to them are the substitutes, aren't they? This includes Samantha Cesario and Vanessa Lam. Of the rest there seems to be 5 contenders for the podium: Shelepen, Siraj, Agafonova, Li, and Oba.

Yup, S = substitute.

I hope Fujisawa has a much better year! I like her a lot

Nishino on the JGP for the 4th straight year?! Hopefully she gets the TBD spot at NHK! She did place 6th at Nationals (though behind Risa Shoji who also could get it)

I'm surprised to see Sui/Han in the JGP again this season... I looked at the senior gp entries and only saw Sui/Han in Skate Canada. Is that all they're doing?

It's Chinese federation politics. S/H are not Yao Bin's students. A rival coach's, actually... I'm sure they would've been glad to have 2 GP's and be done with JGP altogether.

But now that China has two vacant host picks in CoC (P/T withdrew, Z/W injured), hopefully S/H will get one. I just worry between JGP and GP they'll get too tired. Although a very full competitive schedule last year didn't seem to bother them -- they did 3 GP's including GPF, 2 JGP's, JW, two national championships, and Asian Games. But I think they'd be better off spending more time improving their skating instead of competing so much. The Chinese federation is crazy. They should really let them off of competing at the junior level again.